Virtue Quotes · Page 86

“The immoral can no more earn respect Than the envious be rich.”

— Tiruvalluvar

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy…

— Teresa of Avila

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the…

— Aristotle

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they…

— Steven Levy

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept…

— Albert Schweitzer

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we…

— Marcus Aurelius

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally…

— Hilaire Belloc

I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He…

— Smith Wigglesworth

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more…

— Jane Goodall

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

— Seneca the Younger

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

— William Shakespeare

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what…

— John of Salisbury

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

— Mona Charen

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

— Edward Abbey

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so…

— Rajneesh

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

— Jane Aiken Hodge

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view…

— Anonymous

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…

— William Hazlitt

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

— Walter Gilbert

One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with…

— Dick Gephardt

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

— Anonymous

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the…

— Liu Bei

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

— Marcus Aurelius

The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves…

— Laozi

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man…

— Victor Hugo

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the…

— Francis Bacon

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

— Charlotte Lennox

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

— Victor Hugo

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

— Hannah More

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

— Plotinus